Rumsfeld: "I don't do quagmires"

[grasswire]

The arrogant SOB.

[ShimokitaJer]

1. He must have meant "I don't PLAN for quagmires"

Whether he likes it or not, he does quagmires

[Stuckinthebush]

2. Well guess what, big guy....

You've got one now!

What an ass.

[ex_jew]

3. Then perhaps he should resign !

.

[Mandate My Ass]

4. He lets others do quagmires for him

Spoken like a true chickenhawk. Skeletor is consistent at least in that he doesn't put his own ass in the line of fire.

[Stevendsmith]

25. Skeletor!

HAAHH!

Thanks!

[cjbuchanan]

5. They finally admit

that they have no plan for Iraq.

Nice to see some honesty, even if it was only a misstatement.

[grasswire]

9. the context

He was trying to answer a question regarding the "guerilla war" terminology. Said he looked it up in the Pentagon's dictionary. Said he was okay with the use of the term "unconventional" and there wasn't a term that exactly fit. A reporter suggested "quagmire" and he said "I don't do quagmires."

I wonder who that reporter was.

[ignatius]

31. Did you see this from Wolfowitz. U S Did "Stupid Things" in Iraq

snip...US officials underestimated the strength of resistance in Iraq...First, no military units "of significant size" defected to the American side...

"Second, the police turned out to require a massive overhaul."

"Third, and worst of all," he said, was the underestimation of resistance.

"And the fact is -you know it- we often just make mistakes. We do stupid things."

Their "stupid things" are causing real deaths to our soldiers and thousands of Iraqi civilians.

Not only did these asswipes use trumped up data to justify the rush to war, they relied on Iraqis living in the states who had defected after the Shahs overthrow, who hadn't set foot in Iraq in over 20 years to provide them with analysis as to how the Iraqi people would respond to Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL).

A total botch job, an illegitimate war based on illegitimate information by an illegitimate president.

ttp://www.rense.com/general39/stupid.htm

[StopTheMorans]

6. I don't do A*sholes!

F*ck him!

[David__77]

7. will make good snippet in future documentary...

that details the bloody mess that was the Anglo-American occupation.

[supernova]

8. Nice joke, Rummy! LOL!

Of course you do quagmires. You're in one now. ;-)

[Q]

10. He must mean he doesn't 'acknowledge' quagmires...

...the arrogant prick.

[underpants]

Apparently you do now. Welcome to the New American Century

PNAC for short ya might have heard of it you jacka**

[Feanorcurufinwe]

11. I felt sick when I heard the press corps laughing with him on this one

I felt sick when I heard the press corps laughing with him on this one. How can they treat the deaths of our soldiers as a joke?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

13. One man's quagmire is another's joke

yeah, that's pretty sick. :-(

[enough]

14. Yes, that disgusting pack-laughter.

It's what laughter must sound like in Hell.


Time to quote Auden again:

Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand,
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And he was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
"Epitaph on a Tyrant" W.H. Auden



Some DUer used this as a sig. in the old days, but I don't remember who.

[Not a robought]

16. Because that's how Skeletor gets by

when the pressure's on, he diffuses the situation with quick snappy wits, no matter how grave or twisted. No regard.

[mclam]

12. Ye'd best start believin' in quagmires, my dear. You're in one.

Am I being insanely optomistic to take this as a sign of his impending resignation? (Thought so...) :-(

[Melinda]

15. He just helps starts 'em. "IraQuagmire", a PNAC production.

[DS1]

17. We know, you do bent bushes

:bounce:

[Sagan]

18. Of course you don't, Rummy...

You're back in DC in your air-conditioned office, while our fellow citizens in the military do your quagmires for you.

[PurityOfEssence]

19. "Yep, I'm a miasma kinda guy."

The smiling face of hate.

[tom_paine]

24. So true...so true POE

"I cannot stand by and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination and the global commie conspiracy to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids!"
--Gen. Jack D. Ripper

"I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. No more than ten to twenty million killed tops, depending on the breaks."
--Gen. Buck Turgidson

"I'm sorry, too, Dmitri. I can be just as sorry as you, Dmitri."

"Sug...don't forget to say your prayers."
--Gen. Buck Turgidson

"What good is a doomsday device if you keep it a secret! Why did you keep it a secret?!?"
--Dr. Straneglove

"You know how the Premier loves surpirses."
--Ambassador Kissoff

[eyesroll]

20. I don't do mortgage payments!

There, that'll stop 'em from asking for money every month...

[dfong63]

21. guess what, rummy: "you're soaking in it"

[GOPisEvil]

22. Well, one's doing you, fuckwit!

:grr:

[leftchick]

23. of course rummy doesn't , it is the soldiers

that do qagmires!

[rock]

26. Yeah, yeah. And those are cages that you have in camp x-ray

The press will allow him to assign any meaning to any word. What an asshole!

[rman]

27. But then again, "facts change sometimes", don't they Rummy?

Or maybe a quagmire isn't a fact? Possibly only non-quagmires are non-facts, is that what it is?
Or is it one of those known unknowns, or parhaps an unknown unknown?

[Jack Rabbit]

28. Nixon: "I am not a crook."

Enough said.

[JVS]

29. So when are we leaving?

[Clete]

30. For a bog inhabitant, it is an odd disclaimer.

[leesa]

32. So who is he blaming this quagmire on?

What filthy people these are! How could any military person not despise this man and the rest of the trash in this administration.

[DemoTex]

33. Well, he did sit out the last one: Vietnam.

He could have done Vietnam. He chose not to.

Mr. Rumsfeld attended Princeton University on academic and NROTC scholarships (A.B., 1954) and served in the U.S. Navy (1954-57) as an aviator and flight instructor. In 1957, he transferred to the Ready Reserve and continued his Naval service in flying and administrative assignments as a drilling reservist until 1975. He transferred to the Standby Reserve when he became Secretary of Defense in 1975 and to the Retired Reserve with the rank of Captain in 1989.

http://www.defenselink.mil/bios/secdef_bio.html

[I AM SPARTACUS]

34. PHOTO - Rumsfeld, doing a quagmire...

THE LA BREA TAR PITS
in Los Angeles, California

...irony...?